Cooking-stove.



PATENT-ED AUG. 13, 1907.

'1; J. MARCH. COOKING STOVE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1a, 1906.

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THOMAS J. MARCH, OF POTTSTOWN,PENNSYLVANIA.

COOKING-STOVE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed July 18,1906. Serial No. 326,745.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. MARCH, a resident of Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooking-Stoves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in cooking stoves and cooking ranges, the object of the invention being to provide an improved stove or range which is especially adapted for rapid and slow cooking, the latter by radiant and retained heat, and consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of a stove, partly in section and partly in elevation illustrating my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the stove proper. Fig. 4 is a view in section on the line x-x of Fig. 6. Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 6. Fig. 6 is a View on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is a plan view partly broken away, of the cooking chamber 11.

1 represents the body of the stove supported on legs 2, and having a rectangular fire box 3 at one side, the remaining portion of the body comprising an oven 4 and a dead air space 4 below the latter and more than one ven 4 may be provided if desired, the second oven being preferably located at the opposite or left side of the fire box.

Above the fire box 3, below the stove top, an extended chamber 5 is provided, which is widest at its center and tapers to its ends, and is deepest at its center and inclines upward at its sides. This chamber 5, which constitutes a flared extension to the fire box, enables direct heat to be communicated to quite a large area of stove top, in which four stove cover holes are provided, and normally closed by lids 6, 7, 8 and 9, lids 6 and 9 being directly over the fire box at the respective ends thereof, and lids 7 and 8 in the widest part of chamber 5, and a smoke pipe 10 extends up from the rear end of chamber 5 and fire box 3 and communicates with an oven or cooking chamber 11, which will be hereinafter described in detail.

The oven 4 is lined with sheets of asbestos felt or other non-conducting material 12, alternating with several sheets of bright tin or other bright polished sheet metal 137 This lining or covering extends throughout the oven, with the exception of the wall 14 between the fire box 3 and oven 4, which wall has a heat radiating plate next to the fire and flared deflecting plate 15, or in other words the wall 14 comprises a heat radiating plate next to the fire and a deflecting plate next to the radiating plate extending half the depth of said radiating plate. The purpose of this deflecting plate is to deflect the rays of radiant heat to the bottom of even 4 and as much as possible against the bottom of the cooking vessels.

The lower half of the radiating plate is not covered by the deflecting plate thus the rays of radiant heat are permitted to impinge horizontally against the sides of the cooking vessels. Covers 17 are provided for closing openings in the stove top above the oven 4, which permit cooking receptacles to be inserted into the even without opening the oven door, and these covers 1'7 are also lined with non-conducting material like the rest of the oven.

The upper oven or cooking roasting and baking chamber 11, is made with a direct draft flue 18 at the back, and in which a damper 19 is provided to open or close said direct draft, and flues 20 are provided around the oven or chamber 11 at the bottom, sides, and top, and are shaped, so as to direct the smoke and gases to the front and to cause them to completely envelop the chamber before escaping into fine 18, when damper 19 is closed, a suitable door being provided in the front of this even or chamber 11 to permit the ready insertion and removal of the cooking and baking utensils. The front (oven) door and sides of this oven are also lined with non conducting material, as oven 4, and can also be utilized for slow cooking by radiated and retained heat.

The operation of my improvements is as follows: Food may be rapidly cooked on any of the stove lids 6, 7, 8 and 9, or in the upper oven 11, when damper 19 is closed. After the food is partially cooked,'it can be placed in oven 4 and as this even receives only the radiated and retained heat from the fire box, the food can be left in the oven for home and will slowly cook by the radiated and retained heat without any replenishing of fuel in the the box. This even being, lined, as described With nonconducting material will hold the heat for a long time even though the fire is low and the heat will be communicated to the food to slowly cook the same. Slow cooking can also be had in the upper oven or chamber 11 by opening damper 19, as then the radiated heat from the back of even and retained heat will be utilized.

A stove or range of this character is especially desirable in hot weather as it not only saves fuel but also permits the food to be cooked without undue evaporation and without maintaining a hot fire to the discomfort of the cook and household, and it also enables food partially cooked to be slowly cooked at night and be ready for the next day, or hours afterwards the same day, and gives the cook ample opportunity to attend to other duties.

A great many slight changes might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described Without departing from my invention, and hence, I do not restrict myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

1. In a cooking stove, the combination with a fire box, of a chamber above the fire box forming a continuation or retension thereof, of greatest Width at its center and tapering to its ends to the width of the fire box, lids closing openings in the stove top at the widest part of the chamber and also at the ends thereof above the fire box, and a smoke flue at one end of said chamber.

2. In a cooking stove, the combination with a fire box, of a slow cooking oven beside the same having a lining of non-conducting material save at the fire box wall, said fire box well adapted to radiate heat into the oven and a deflecting plate located in the oven adjacent to the fire box wall.

3. In a cooking stove, the combination with a fire box, of a slow cooking oven beside the same having a lining of non-conducting material throughout save at the fire box wall, and a heat deflecting plate and heat radiating plate located at said fire box wall.

4. In a cooking stove, the combination with a fire box and an oven beside the same, of a heat radiating plate and a heat deflecting plate at the Wall between the oven and fire box, the deflecting plate extending but partially the depth of the radiating plate. 7

5. In a cooking stove, the combination with a fire box, of an oven beside the same having a lining of non-conducting material except at the fire box wall, means in the oven at the fire-box side of the oven for deflecting heat into the oven, and said stove having a dead air space under said oven.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS J. MARCH.

Witnesses:

F. C. E. MIHLHOUSE, AARON J. WARNER. 

